The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

Adventures do occur, but not punctually.

Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.

If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run

The historian records, but the novelist creates.

The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.

Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.

Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.

You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.

Don't be mysterious; there isn't the time.

It's not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.

Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.

Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?